# Episode 108 - Carousel, Croatia & Cheese ft. Berty Ashley

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 30 Jun 2025, 1 h 03 min.

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Joining us on this episode is our 'king of segues' guest quizmaster Berty Ashley! Do you know which song from the 1956 musical film Carousel, has gained worldwide recognition, and recently was being sung more than usual? Do you know what connects the countries Ecuador, Mongolia, Pakistan and Croatia? Do you know what etymology connects a Swiss cheese dish to the world of tech? Tune in to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] For today's episode, I have an audience question to start us
[0:03] off. This question is posed for our
[0:07] audience members to ponder over as we go through our episode and
[0:11] the answer to which is revealed at the end of the episode.
[0:14] So stick around for the answer. The question is which band was
[0:20] named after its founders, astrological sign Sagittarius,
[0:26] and its qualities? Which band was named after the
[0:30] qualities of the astrological sign of its founder, which is
[0:34] Sagittarius? The answer to this question will
[0:37] be revealed at the end of the episode.
[0:39] And here's the music. Welcome to Are you quizzing me?
[0:44] I am Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashyap.
[0:47] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show.
[0:50] Join us as we dive deep into history, science, pop culture
[0:54] and so much more. Let's get quizzing.
[0:58] So this is episode 108, and it's a special episode because one of
[1:03] our fan favorite guests is back today to step into the shoes of
[1:07] Vineet, who is away. So, Bertie, thank you so much
[1:11] for stepping in, and welcome back to Are You Quizzing Me?
[1:14] Hey guys, yes I am happy to be back.
[1:17] Last time we saw each other was 100 episode 100, so it's good to
[1:21] be back. I shall make up for doctor's
[1:24] absence by putting signs in, but I don't know.
[1:26] I don't know because as usual, as a tradition, I have not
[1:29] prepared any questions. So it's going to be seguing from
[1:32] whatever you say. You are the king of segues
[1:35] because we need a nice struggle every time because we have our
[1:37] questions pre prepared and we are trying to find some way to
[1:41] connect it and you come up with questions based off of our
[1:43] previous question. So that's the laziest way to do
[1:45] it, No, right? Don't prepare because all you
[1:49] need is the segue. Don't care about the.
[1:51] You do the segue first and then the question.
[1:53] Yeah, we have got it all wrong. OK, So the audience question, by
[1:57] the way, was something that hopefully caters to your taste.
[2:00] And at the end of the episode, I'll ask you if you have figured
[2:03] out the answer to that. But let me start off today's
[2:06] episode with another question related to music.
[2:11] Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin wrote a song in 1937, which was
[2:17] published by Harms Inc, New York.
[2:20] Popular recordings of the song included versions by Shep
[2:23] Fields, Russ Morgan, and Eddie Duchin.
[2:26] Duchin Duchin, I'm not quite sure, but these were people of
[2:31] some fame of that era. The original version contains an
[2:35] introductory verse that leads up to the main part of the song, as
[2:39] a young man tells of his date with a young woman in which they
[2:42] go to an amusement park and find time to quote UN quote spark
[2:47] while riding the malfunctioning carousel.
[2:50] I'm assuming spark is some level of intimacy, maybe hold hands,
[2:53] maybe kiss, or whatever was considered acceptable in 1937 to
[2:58] be doing on a date. The name was a play on Quote UN
[3:01] Quote Breakdown and the tune is similar to the traditional
[3:04] Chinese breakdown as well as a children's rhyme.
[3:08] Miss Susie had a Steamboat. My question to you is, how do we
[3:13] know this song? It's called The Merry Go Round
[3:15] broke down? How is this very famous today in
[3:19] the world of pop culture, let's say?
[3:21] OK, thank you for that lovely question.
[3:25] I do know the answer. Oh, why I thought as much.
[3:29] Because it intersects two of my favorite things in life.
[3:36] What is music? Another is cartoons.
[3:40] Perfect, yes. I'm guessing now you know, yeah.
[3:42] You have it, you have it. So I I was a kid who grew up
[3:45] watching Looney Tunes. Yes.
[3:48] Yeah, so I wait. Let me say I.
[4:00] Was going to play the action music, but you know what?
[4:01] This was better. If I'm not wrong, Looney tunes
[4:08] or Looney tunes are theme music. But I noticed some merry go
[4:12] round is it broke down. I didn't know it.
[4:13] No, I thought it was just merry go round.
[4:15] Music. The merry go round broke down,
[4:16] Yeah. Oh broke down, so that's what it
[4:18] was. Oh.
[4:19] So it has lyrics as well. What I did not know.
[4:22] This. Yeah, yeah.
[4:25] Oh. Nice.
[4:26] And obviously in Looney Tunes version, it ends with pokey pig
[4:30] stuttering. That's all folks.
[4:33] That's all folks. Yeah, so that's the famous
[4:36] Looney Tunes music that all of us did grow up with, and that's
[4:40] the name of the song. And that's what it was all
[4:42] about. It was about a young man and a
[4:44] woman going on a date, really finding the spark when the
[4:48] carousel malfunctions. Wow, that is so cool.
[4:53] Yeah. OK.
[4:55] Good start. Brilliant start.
[4:56] Brilliant start. OK.
[4:57] I'm guessing next question is mine.
[4:58] Yes. Next question is yes.
[5:00] Very interesting. I have two segues.
[5:01] I'm thinking which way to go so. Go for both.
[5:04] You're the guest. What?
[5:07] Has this ever happened in the history of are you quizzing me?
[5:13] OK, let's go. This is going to be interesting.
[5:17] OK, first let's go for the first one.
[5:19] OK, so you did you say something about a carousel?
[5:23] I did, yeah. You did mention that word,
[5:25] right? Yeah.
[5:27] So maybe go round another word for it is Carousel.
[5:29] So there was a movie that came out called Carousel, which is
[5:34] based on a stage play long time back, by the way, because this
[5:37] is generally out of top of my head.
[5:39] I don't have dates, but let's go with this now.
[5:41] Carousel, it's black and white movie, very famous American
[5:46] movie. It's a really tearjerker of a
[5:50] movie. And there's one part where the
[5:52] protagonist, I mean the hero and the hero and other, and one of
[5:57] them tells the other, don't worry, I've got your back.
[6:04] That's kind of the scene. And then obviously, because it's
[6:07] old school movies, a song comes in.
[6:11] Now the title of the song is famous in a completely different
[6:15] instance. And specifically that particular
[6:18] song, that particular theme, that particular whatever the
[6:21] title is, very, very, very popular.
[6:25] One place this year, few months back, it again blew up.
[6:31] Like the number of people singing it, the number of people
[6:35] wholeheartedly enveloped in it was skyrocketing after many,
[6:40] many, many years. OK, so.
[6:43] What is the line and what is the reason?
[6:46] I'll give you more clues if you can't figure.
[6:48] Out OK, so just to get that sequence right.
[6:51] So there is a moment where a character is is consoling
[6:55] another character. Is that it?
[6:56] Kind of you can say, OK, it's a musical.
[6:59] Quickly, I'm going to just Google and find out the year
[7:02] because you said 1937. Yeah.
[7:05] So the 1945 came on Broadway. Then obviously it's made into a
[7:09] movie and all that kind of stuff.
[7:11] So 1945, original Broadway is a big thing.
[7:13] And then there's one particular title song.
[7:16] OK so some sort of a song where 1 character is is trying to
[7:20] console trying to raise the spirits is what I gathered for
[7:23] the other character. Yeah, let me set the scene.
[7:26] The cousin of the protagonist sings this to comfort and
[7:31] encourage Julie when her husband, the male lead, stabs
[7:36] himself with a knife while trying to run away from
[7:38] attempting A robbery with the front of his and dies in his
[7:41] arms. OK, so that's the scene.
[7:43] Oh wow. OK, so this is a cousin
[7:45] comforting the person lead. So that's it.
[7:49] OK. The clue is like a lot of people
[7:53] sang this after many many. I mean, they sing it regularly,
[7:57] but after many, many years it was sung with feverish joy.
[8:02] Feverish Joy? OK, I was thinking some sort of
[8:05] a protest song, but if you sing Joy then probably not a protest.
[8:09] I mean, other times it is used as protest, but yeah, this time
[8:12] it is joy. OK, some sort of a joyous song
[8:17] sung joyfully after a very long time.
[8:21] I'm trying to think of what has happened after a very long time
[8:24] recently. Yeah.
[8:25] Yeah, well, very, very, very, very long time.
[8:29] No, I am at a loss. I can't think of something
[8:32] joyous that has happened. I'm wow.
[8:35] World News has got me so sad. That's also true.
[8:39] So now here's the thing. There are certain people who are
[8:41] listening to this podcast right now who knew the answer
[8:44] immediately and they are literally screaming at the
[8:47] phones right now, dude. OK, OK, OK.
[8:52] Maybe give me some sense of are we looking at political song or
[8:56] are we looking at. No, it's not.
[8:58] It's not politics. It's not politics.
[8:59] OK, OK, I'll give you a clue. Pink Floyd actually sampled this
[9:06] in the song Fearless. OK.
[9:09] I say crowd chant. Crowd chant.
[9:13] Oh so is it a some then? I'm thinking something like a
[9:16] sports anthem. Go, go, go, go, go, go.
[9:20] OK, I have two guesses and this is This is why we love guests
[9:23] coming on the show because neither Vineet and I are sports
[9:25] people, so our knowledge of sports is very bad.
[9:28] Neither am I, but yes. Two guesses based on just what
[9:33] I've heard from friends and people on the Internet.
[9:36] I know that was it the mix who did really well this year after
[9:39] a very long time. OK.
[9:41] They're also doing very well. Yes, OK.
[9:43] The other one I know is Liverpool One recently after a
[9:47] very long time. Yeah, we have it.
[9:49] Oh, you'll never walk alone. Is the right answer.
[9:53] Oh my God, that's from a musical called Carousel.
[9:56] That's insane. From musical called Carousel.
[9:58] Yeah, You'll Never Walk Alone is from Carousel.
[10:02] OK, interesting. Wait, so is Liverpool as a team
[10:05] younger? Than 8 years old, but this has
[10:07] been only from since 1945. But the the chant has become
[10:10] part and parcel of the Liverpool.
[10:12] Wow, OK there. You go.
[10:14] That is perfect segue. Wow, me.
[10:17] I knew a sports answer that's obviously a great question and
[10:21] you segued brilliantly. I love it.
[10:23] Thank you, thank you, thank you. You know what, since you're
[10:26] talking about Liverpool and Europe, I'm going to name four
[10:30] countries and you have to tell me, what is this an exhaustive
[10:34] list of? Oh, OK.
[10:37] The first one is Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[10:40] OK. Second one is San Marino, third
[10:44] is Kosovo, and the last one and the most famous, obviously the
[10:48] most well known of the countries in the list would be Spain.
[10:51] What? Yeah.
[10:52] And you say it is an exhaustive list.
[10:54] It is an exhaustive list, yes. OK, Bosnia has Spain, Kosovo.
[10:59] What is the 4th 1? Bosnia has a Govina, Kosovo, San
[11:04] Marino and Spain. San Marino, OK.
[11:06] And Spain, Wow, it's not geography.
[11:13] OK, they are all in Europe. Oh, this is purely based on your
[11:19] last one. And because also sport am I,
[11:23] It's fresh in my mind only national anthems which don't
[11:26] have words in it. Come on, that was too easy.
[11:30] Really. Perfect.
[11:34] Wow, That was very impressive, Very impressive.
[11:36] So just a little bit of background, but yeah, that's the
[11:39] answer. In summation, these are the four
[11:41] countries in the world, the only four countries where the
[11:43] national anthem, the official national anthem of the country,
[11:45] does not have any official lyrics.
[11:48] A lot of them have lyrics, but none of them are officially the
[11:52] lyrics that are adopted by the constitution I guess.
[11:54] The Spanish tried crowdfunding it, OK, like they did a
[11:57] crowdsourcing of it, but everybody wrote such shitty
[12:00] lyrics and they said, OK, fine, fuck it, we are going to do it
[12:02] only as instrumental. And they stopped it.
[12:05] Yeah. Oh, by the ways, there are these
[12:07] American tweets which say like, how rude the Spanish are not
[12:14] singing the national anthem. What are they protesting?
[12:16] And there are like four or five tweets saying this second match
[12:19] I'm watching and the nobody sings the national anthem.
[12:21] How rude. And all of these Americans are
[12:23] so used to putting the hand on the chest and singing full flow,
[12:26] right? Right, right.
[12:27] So they are like, they think it's really rude that the
[12:29] Spanish don't sing the national anthem.
[12:32] There is. I love that.
[12:33] That's, that's actually pretty interesting for me as well.
[12:36] Like you mentioned, these are all the national anthems, the
[12:39] anthem of the Republic of Kosovo.
[12:42] It has no official, it was adopted in 2008, so pretty
[12:45] recently. Kosovo as a country is also not
[12:47] very old the Eno Nacional de la republica de San Marino is the
[12:52] national anthem of San Marino, which was adopted in 1894 and
[12:57] that also no lyrics. The national anthem of Bosnia
[13:00] and Hezegovina was composed in 1998 and was made official in
[13:04] 2001. And Spain, the most famous one
[13:07] of the list, Marcha Real, is the national anthem of Spain.
[13:11] It is one of the only four national anthems in the world
[13:14] which have no lyrics. And that was the connect that
[13:17] was very easily cracked. Very well done.
[13:21] Thank you. Back to you.
[13:22] Back to you, buddy. Nice.
[13:25] Here is my question. OK, OK, this order is very
[13:30] important. OK, so I want to name four
[13:34] countries. Again exhaustive list.
[13:37] OK, so which doc was here? I think both of you together
[13:40] would have got this. But let's see the combined
[13:43] powers. If you want, these are the four
[13:46] countries everybody listening in this order.
[13:49] Ecuador first, Mongolia second, Pakistan 3rd and finally
[13:59] Croatia. OK.
[14:01] This is kind of a weird question.
[14:04] It's an exhaustive list because of something.
[14:07] OK, I'll give you the clue. Also, it's exhaustive.
[14:10] It's an exhaustive list because of US.
[14:15] OK. Yeah, sorry.
[14:17] So you said Ecuador? In order OK, Ecuador, Mongolia,
[14:23] Pakistan, Croatia and I have a feeling a friend and I we on on
[14:29] late evening came up with. To the list Ecuador, Mongolia,
[14:33] Pakistan, Croatia. Croatia, yeah.
[14:36] Now the thing that connects them is something that all cruisers
[14:39] know is something that everybody's like.
[14:40] You know all the things you should know when you're in
[14:43] school types. OK.
[14:45] But there's an extra step that you have to take, which is the
[14:49] order is important, which is what connects.
[14:51] This makes a fun question now. That's why I said if you, Vineet
[14:55] were here, you both will be brainstorming with each other,
[14:58] right? Yeah.
[15:00] What I'm going to do is I'm going to shed my QM and become
[15:03] Doctor Vineet, right? Yeah.
[15:05] OK, OK, perfect. And I'm going to be like, let's
[15:08] do some. Improv.
[15:09] Yeah, Alright, let's do this. So OK, I'm not OK, I'm not going
[15:15] to do that. Wow, where did Vineet come from?
[15:18] End scene. So yeah, there are four
[15:23] countries. What do you know about these
[15:24] countries that you know as a kid?
[15:27] Jeez, I'm I'm a little scared right now.
[15:28] That is very uncanny. OK, what do I know about these
[15:32] countries? Ecuador.
[15:35] Wow, just thinking Geography. One of the highest elevations or
[15:40] Ecuador on the equator, but again, that's Mongolia doesn't
[15:43] fit that. Yeah, if you're randomly asking
[15:46] a kid some questions, what would you say?
[15:48] Like a jiggy question. Honestly, Ecuador, all I can
[15:52] think of is on the equator very high.
[15:55] Well, not the highest elevation, sorry.
[15:57] I think the capital at the highest elevation or something
[15:59] like that. OK.
[16:00] And what would that be? Quito, Quito.
[16:03] OK. Mongolia olanbata, probably a
[16:07] slightly high as well. OK, what's third?
[16:11] Can't think of Islamabad being relevant in that way.
[16:14] What is 4th? Croatia, Zagreb.
[16:17] I think Zagreb is the capital. I can't be the doc anymore
[16:21] because now I'm like losing my character.
[16:24] Go go for it, Go for it. Wait, Croatia is it capitals?
[16:28] Is it got so vigor with capitals?
[16:30] Go ahead, keep talking. Keep talking.
[16:33] You want to write this down. I love it.
[16:37] I feel like I'm in school again. You got all four right.
[16:40] Absolutely right. Perfect.
[16:41] OK, OK. Yeah, but now that's the first
[16:44] step. Now take the second step.
[16:49] Quiz. Yes, quiz, Qi said.
[16:52] Yeah. What?
[16:53] These are the only capitals which have only that letter.
[16:56] Quito is only Q. There's no other Q capital.
[16:59] There's no other U capital than Ulan Bata.
[17:00] There's no other I capital than Islamabad.
[17:02] There's no other Z capital in Sagre.
[17:04] Put them together, they spell out.
[17:06] Quiz. Wow, wait, that is very
[17:10] interesting because qu and zi generally thought OK, rare
[17:12] letters I there's no other capital.
[17:14] You're right. Yep, there you go.
[17:17] There is no other capital with the letter I that is.
[17:20] That is mind boggling. Wow.
[17:22] This is when we do the shout out to the name of the podcast.
[17:25] Of course, of course you, you are quizzing me at this point
[17:28] with the word quiz. Wow, that is insane.
[17:30] That is a great question Qiz. And these are the only capitals
[17:35] with those. Those letters?
[17:37] Yep. No other capital in the world,
[17:39] starts the unique letter. Yeah, this excludes every other.
[17:41] OK, Yeah. Pretty much, and in this order
[17:44] it's QUIZ. Oh, OK, You know what you said
[17:48] it has something to do with us. I kept thinking with India and I
[17:51] was like, how is India related to Ecuador, Mongolia, Pakistan?
[17:56] OK, that makes a lot worse sense to us as in our quizzing right
[17:59] now. OK, yes, that's exactly what
[18:01] we're doing, right? Wow, that was insane.
[18:04] That is a very unexpected but fun question.
[18:08] I love that. Yes, and good segue also for me.
[18:11] So I'm like, yes, I'm right now more invested in the segue than
[18:14] anything else. OK, well my segue is pretty much
[18:21] catering to what my question already was predetermined to be
[18:25] and tell me this is something, let's say just vaguely
[18:29] international Calvinism or Reformed Christianity as it
[18:33] called. There was a devout Calvinist by
[18:35] the name of Jean Henry Dunant. Jean Henry Dunant.
[18:40] I don't know, it's a Swiss businessman so probably some
[18:43] French pronunciation to it. Jean Henry Dunant, who was
[18:47] around in the time of the 19th century, mid 19th century and
[18:52] he. OK, by the way, I already know
[18:54] the answer because I know the guy.
[18:57] You are making short change of all my questions.
[19:00] This is. I just want to figure out what
[19:04] the question is because there are three possible answers and I
[19:06] want to get. I want to know the quickest at
[19:09] which point I can confirm which answer.
[19:11] So I am going to just. This question has turned around
[19:15] to be a questioner for me because now I don't know what
[19:17] are the other two answers. I only know one.
[19:21] Have you ever had a segue in the middle of your question to a
[19:26] question to you? OK, OK, so I was going to ask
[19:29] you 2 questions. I don't know what the third one
[19:31] is. OK, so he was travelling to
[19:34] Italy to meet the then French Emperor Napoleon the Third in
[19:37] June of 1859, with the intention of discussing difficulties in
[19:42] conducting business in Algeria, which was at that time occupied
[19:46] by France. He arrived at the small town of
[19:49] Salferino on the evening of 24 June.
[19:53] In a single day something happened that put his plans on
[19:58] hold. He was going to go meet the
[19:59] Emperor and those plans were put on hold and it completely
[20:03] changed his intention for the trip.
[20:06] The work that he did on the trip changed and there have been two
[20:10] significant outcomes on this one which has been.
[20:13] I guess last thing for the last more than a century now.
[20:16] Yeah. Yeah.
[20:17] Ongoing for more than a century. And the other one was the first
[20:20] of its kind. Yes.
[20:22] These are the two questions I was going to ask you.
[20:24] The third one, you'll have to tell me what you were thinking
[20:26] of. So what do you think is the one
[20:28] that has been lasting for more than a century and outcome of
[20:30] his fateful trip? Yes, absolutely.
[20:35] So it's the Red Cross and whose logo is the reverse of the Swiss
[20:39] flag. Perfect.
[20:40] Because he's Swiss. Yes, and the first one is the
[20:42] first Nobel Peace Prize. I'm guessing 19.
[20:44] Not on the very first Nobel, if I'm not wrong, the very first
[20:46] Nobel Prize itself, which we decided was for Do Not and the
[20:52] Red Cross International. You are very correct.
[20:54] Yes, it was a shared Nobel Peace Prize.
[20:57] Nobel Peace Prize. Everybody knows the world's
[20:59] foremost Peace Prize that currently Donald Trump is vying
[21:03] for. Yeah, somebody give it to him
[21:05] already, he said. He deserves. 16 of them, some I
[21:11] think political, whatever spokesperson said this on some
[21:15] news channel where like forget about his 34 felony counts, he
[21:18] should be given 34 exactly Nobel Peace Prizes.
[21:20] And I just thought if you have any weird moment to remind
[21:23] people that he has felony charges against him.
[21:26] Yeah, exactly. We were talking about that also.
[21:29] Didn't he just now bomb somebody?
[21:33] Yeah, so, well, Donald Trump aside, Henry Dunant won the
[21:38] Nobel Peace Prize, the first seven over prison 19 O one for
[21:42] the establishing of founding of Red Cross, the Islamic world
[21:47] equivalent of it being the Red Crescent as well.
[21:50] So the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which
[21:53] is famous across the world for providing humanitarian aid in
[21:57] moments and places of crisis. Absolutely yes.
[22:01] What was the third piece of trivia?
[22:02] But that could be your question I guess if you want to make it.
[22:05] Oh no, no, no, no, because the answer is Asterix in
[22:08] Switzerland. Ah OK, I don't know what is the
[22:11] connection. So there's this beautiful panel,
[22:14] OK, where the Romans are attacking Switzerland.
[22:18] OK. As always.
[22:19] And one of the guys, he wallops, the Roman whacks him.
[22:24] And the Roman, as usual, he falls down at his helmet as
[22:27] often he'll got like birds flying around his head and all.
[22:30] And then he starts bandaging him up.
[22:32] OK. And the Roman is like, I'm very
[22:33] confused. You just backed me and now
[22:35] you're bandaging me. And the guy says, yes, that's
[22:38] what we do. We take care of everybody,
[22:39] including our enemies. And that's a small shout out to
[22:42] Henry Jordan. And in that particular panel,
[22:45] the guy is dressed in red and white chicks, which is a tribute
[22:49] to the Red Cross. Wow OK that's pretty good.
[22:52] Vinit would have appreciated it. I think he likes the Asterix
[22:56] comic series as well. Oh, nice.
[22:58] Oh, yeah. History, geography.
[22:59] Yeah, absolutely. Makes sense.
[23:01] And he's a doctor also, so he's probably right now he's not here
[23:04] because he's helping people. Yeah, he has better things to do
[23:08] than trivia. He has.
[23:10] He's like he's changing lives. Alright, OK, great.
[23:14] So your question next buddy? Oh wow, now I can we can go on
[23:17] multiple Segways from this. Let's see.
[23:24] OK, I got this, this Swiss. We're going with Henry John
[23:28] Durant and Switzerland. Very weird segue, but I'm going
[23:32] to force it in the Swiss. And I'm guessing Durant, because
[23:36] he's also kind of French, loved cheese.
[23:39] OK. Yeah, perfect.
[23:41] Do you agree with that? He has to.
[23:43] You're denied your citizenship to Switzerland if you don't like
[23:45] cheese. Exactly right.
[23:47] OK, so now that the segue has been established, one of the
[23:52] most dependent way of having cheese is by having molten
[23:57] cheese, OK, And then dipping bread and all that kind of stuff
[24:00] and having it on meat and bread and stuff like that.
[24:02] Sure, sure. Do you know the name of the
[24:04] dishes? Fondue, right.
[24:06] Fondue very. Good.
[24:07] It's called a fondue. Excellent.
[24:08] Right now the cheese. There are two questions from
[24:11] this, I think. One, you'll immediately get the
[24:14] other. Let's have at it.
[24:16] The most important thing about cheese is that it has to be
[24:19] molded. So this particular fondue cheese
[24:26] used to be molded using metal molds and the Swiss were very
[24:33] good at making this like the the molds were the best.
[24:36] So much so that in a completely different field, when they first
[24:41] wanted to have very precise molds, they asked these guys and
[24:48] these guys made specific tiny molds for another purpose.
[24:54] And that is the reason that a word that we all use nowadays in
[24:58] our digital age traces its leading age to species.
[25:03] First question is, what word is that?
[25:08] So it's a word that it's purely digital, like you cannot think
[25:13] of any other use for it. For example, if you say mouse,
[25:16] it works in digital as well as non digital.
[25:18] OK, But this word as soon as you say it, I mean I can't think of
[25:20] anything else other than a computer, but it's lineage is
[25:25] Swiss cheese makers and you're already halfway there because
[25:30] you identify the dish. OK, so is the root word fondue
[25:34] or something? Yes, we are there.
[25:36] We are there. If I give away the main word
[25:42] which goes into fondue and my answer, then it'll be too easy.
[25:46] So that's why I'm not going there.
[25:49] Because you said mold and you said technology, The Only
[25:54] Connect I can find is thinking silicon.
[25:58] OK, let's see. Silicon also has non digital
[26:02] meanings. True.
[26:02] True. True.
[26:03] True. OK, I'm going to give you the
[26:05] original word in Latin from which you get all of these.
[26:08] So the original word in Latin is fondure FUNDERE.
[26:14] OK, that's the all the way OG word from which we also get
[26:18] fondue. And it means to melt or to pour
[26:22] and also to cast. But knowing the dishes name is
[26:26] easier. Like if fondure is at the
[26:29] beginning of the timeline, fondue is in the middle, and
[26:32] what is at the end? Font like a font typography.
[26:37] Yes, that is the answer. It is a font.
[26:39] Oh. The font comes from printing
[26:42] right when they used to have physical printing right.
[26:44] So they needed to have these metal letters ABC and D, right?
[26:48] And those used to take the letter and print it onto the
[26:53] paper and used to have different types of fonts, right?
[26:56] Like Helvetica, which is. Helvetica is a Swiss, right?
[26:59] Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
[27:01] That's why the Swiss are the one.
[27:02] I think other than times you Rome that the only one which
[27:05] originally has the name of the country, the Latin name for the
[27:07] country because they were the ones who started it.
[27:10] Is I love that about these questions that you're asking
[27:12] that in retrospect it's so obvious they're thinking fondue
[27:17] font technology makes some complete sense.
[27:19] Wow. OK, you could say this podcast
[27:22] is a font of facts because now Fountain also comes from the
[27:26] same. Very good.
[27:29] I was going for a partner. I'm just very fondue of trivia.
[27:37] If I'm very fond of you, I'm a fondue.
[27:44] Perfect. That's the kind of level of
[27:46] conversation that I operate at. Just to clarify, OK, great.
[27:50] But I love that. That is a pretty great TIL for
[27:53] me. And again, another question that
[27:55] Doc would have been very good at because as regular listeners
[27:58] know, that man loves his typography and his fonts and
[28:03] etymology and etymology as well. Yeah.
[28:05] So something you would have loved.
[28:06] OK, great. A segue.
[28:08] Oh, OK, perfect. So because we are talking about
[28:12] writing, that gives me a great segue for this.
[28:16] As you are probably very aware of, this is a trope in so many
[28:20] comedy shows and sketches. The idea that a Starbucks
[28:24] barista is probably going to misspell your name, right?
[28:29] So when they write out the name, and that's where the segue
[28:31] comes, when they write your name on your cup of coffee, they're
[28:34] probably going to misspell it. And then they're going to say
[28:36] the name out loud incorrectly. In the world of Star Wars, how
[28:43] was this relevant or how did this create an impact the fact
[28:47] that Starbucks baristas sometimes misspell names?
[28:51] Dude that is so cool I did not know.
[28:54] I don't know don't know this but I'm liking this already.
[28:57] Also before that quick question, how can Aditya be wrongly
[29:01] pronounced? Have you ever been
[29:03] mispronounced? I'm I'm not a very big coffee
[29:06] person, so I don't have too much experience with baristas, but I
[29:10] lived in Singapore for almost 14 years of my life.
[29:13] I went by Adi because whenever I told people my full name, for
[29:17] some reason the Chinese way of saying things would remove the T
[29:23] from the name, so I became Adiya.
[29:24] So. They would make the T silent.
[29:28] I I don't know what influence of Mandarin or Cantonese that is,
[29:31] but for some reason my name would become Adiya, which was to
[29:35] be very funny because very rarely in Indian names do you
[29:39] have silent. Letters.
[29:40] Yeah, absolutely. Every single letter.
[29:43] Yeah, put it out there. Yeah.
[29:45] We put a lot of effort into pronouncing every letter.
[29:47] In fact, we hit our TS and our Rs interesting.
[29:51] And to me, it was very funny that somebody was removing the T
[29:54] So I went by Adi for the longest time just because people would
[29:57] struggle to say my full name. So that's how some people might
[30:01] mispronounce my name. Yeah.
[30:03] Mine all the time I get battery Betty, Bharti, britto Bento.
[30:11] Britto. Yeah, yeah, these are actual
[30:14] names. Anyway, let's get to this.
[30:17] Very interesting. So, OK, so is Lucas involved in
[30:20] this somewhere? He went to a barista and he said
[30:23] some name. Oh, no, that's Indiana Jones.
[30:25] That's indie because that's his dog.
[30:29] Is Chewbacca something to do with this?
[30:32] No, no, somebody just made the chewy sounds.
[30:36] I know OK, this is the origin for a very famous character
[30:40] name. Not a character name.
[30:42] A name, but not a character name.
[30:44] Interesting. Is it for a sound effect then?
[30:48] No. OK, so maybe not the most famous
[30:50] of names, but fans of Star Wars, especially the new films would
[30:55] know. And one of the better films in
[30:57] the recent filmography. How dare you?
[31:00] How dare you? No, no shade to anybody who
[31:04] loves Star Wars, but yes. Kylo Ren is.
[31:07] No, not so. Let me tell you, it's not the
[31:10] trilogy. Wow.
[31:12] OK then. Oh, please don't tell me it's
[31:14] something with Grogu. No.
[31:17] Not Grogu. Not Grogu either.
[31:19] You know what, I think I'll have to give up on this because I
[31:23] don't know this funda it's. Very interesting.
[31:25] OK, I'll tell you which film it is.
[31:28] If you have seen the film and you remember details, I have.
[31:30] Seen all the Star Wars shoes? OK, I am a fan, I'll give you
[31:32] that. You're a fan, so I'm assuming
[31:35] you have seen and one of my personal favorites in the Star
[31:38] Wars films, Rogue One. Yes, of course, yes.
[31:41] I love Rogue One. Do you remember the name of the
[31:44] planet in Rogue One? The tropical planet of the Outer
[31:48] Rim Territories where the Death Star battle station.
[31:52] Scarif. Scarif.
[31:54] Scarif. Scarif.
[31:55] Scarif is the name of the. Wow, very well done.
[31:58] I would not have been able to name that.
[32:00] Scarif and Jeddah, Jeddah, something like that was another
[32:03] One South. Scarif is the planet in
[32:06] question. Scarif, do you know?
[32:08] And now obviously going back to the question, it is clearly
[32:12] somebody's name being misspelled and somebody at coffee shop
[32:16] misspelled the name when they were calling out the order from
[32:20] this person. So they called out Scariff when
[32:23] it was supposed to be somebody. Else exactly.
[32:26] From the Star Wars cast. From Rogue One, not the cast.
[32:32] Anything that sounds very vaguely even similar to Scariff.
[32:36] Damn. OK, who's the director of the
[32:41] robot? Yeah, it is the director.
[32:42] It is the director. Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I
[32:44] know. I am blanking out right now.
[32:48] I hate this. OK, I'll give it to you.
[32:50] The fact that you got scarf itself is very impressive.
[32:53] It's Gareth. Gareth Edwards.
[32:56] Edwards, Gareth. So according to Gareth Edwards,
[33:01] he said this at the South by Southwest 2017 festival, where
[33:05] he said that the name of the planet came from a misspelling
[33:07] of his name in a coffee cup, where he said that I must have
[33:11] said it's Gareth and they wrote Scariff.
[33:14] Damn. That's how the planet got its
[33:16] name. In my brain, I was like JJ
[33:19] Abrams. No, J, it can't be JJ Abrams.
[33:21] JJ Abrams is not the director for this one.
[33:23] Yeah. Yeah, very nice, very nice.
[33:29] Yeah, I thought so. I thought so.
[33:31] All right, Bertie. Going straight and actually I
[33:37] don't know I forgot this guys name.
[33:39] OK, so the three friends, they are watching Star Wars.
[33:43] OK. During the pandemic and they get
[33:47] inspired. Oh, Doctor Vinit is not here.
[33:52] We both missing him a lot. I get it.
[33:54] We both are really missing him. So they were in Kohikode during
[33:59] a time when there was a severe water shortage and then
[34:02] obviously they came to Bangalore, which is where all
[34:06] the startups are, and then they started Uruvu Labs in Bangalore.
[34:11] OK. Now they wanted to solve the
[34:15] water shortage problem. Potable water.
[34:17] Potable water. OK, OK.
[34:19] And they're fans of Star Wars. They brought to life something
[34:24] that existed in the Star Wars universe.
[34:28] So what did they do? Of course, I'll give you more
[34:30] clues as we go by. And that's the segue.
[34:33] It is directly something exists in Bangalore right now.
[34:37] It is commercialized. It's found, which exists only in
[34:41] the Star Wars universe, or at least as a functional version.
[34:44] Yeah. OK so can I just check is it
[34:47] exactly the same thing that has been kind of re produced or or
[34:50] like just inspired and like named after it or something?
[34:54] Oh, no, it's, it's the thing. It's whatever that function, OK,
[34:58] for example. OK, obviously.
[35:00] Can you give me the obvious wrong answer?
[35:03] Like a lightsaber. Perfect.
[35:04] So that's it. That's your obvious wrong
[35:06] answer. Lightsaber.
[35:08] This would also be a lightsaber. OK, so exactly.
[35:11] That but a functional one. Like a functional one.
[35:13] Got it. OK, but the clue is that they
[35:17] underwent water shortage when they went Kohikode.
[35:19] Water. That's what I'm trying to
[35:20] remember. What relate?
[35:22] What is are? You a Star Wars fan as well?
[35:25] I have watched the films. I can't claim to be a fan.
[35:29] OK, now if you don't, I can give you a nice clue though how I
[35:32] presented this at my sustainability seminar which I
[35:36] did in Bangalore. OK, so the only thing that water
[35:41] related comes to mind first is Luke standing near at the
[35:46] sunset. Anything is at a well, I think
[35:48] when he's standing there. Go on, go on.
[35:50] This is a audio podcast, so they can't see me getting excited and
[35:53] waving my hands. Yeah.
[35:54] So yeah, we'll have description, but he actually waves his hands
[35:59] in anticipation. Go ahead.
[36:01] OK, so something to do with the well.
[36:03] Which planet is that? Endor right?
[36:05] No, no. No, Endor is the one with all
[36:07] the small teddy bears. So right, right, right.
[36:10] But the most famous one? The one with the two sons.
[36:13] Yes, yes. So, OK, good.
[36:15] That's the main part. I don't care about the name it's
[36:17] tattooing. Tattooing, right, Right.
[36:18] But you got the main part. If there are two sons, what is
[36:22] the problem scientifically? What would be the problem
[36:25] scientifically related to water you mean?
[36:27] Yes, yes I guess just more heat. So water would evaporate a lot
[36:33] more, yes. Absolutely fantastic.
[36:36] It will be twice the amount of evaporation.
[36:39] Right, right, right. So what is on tattooing which
[36:42] these guys recreated in Bangalore?
[36:44] There's a particular job title in tattooing.
[36:48] OK, OK. Where Luke also works with them.
[36:51] It's part of Canon. Man it's been more almost 2
[36:55] decades since I saw the prequel. The family with the blue milk,
[36:58] what was their profession? But now it's getting into nerdy
[37:01] territory, OK? Yeah, yeah.
[37:02] I'm lost. I'm lost.
[37:03] There are people who are listening to your podcast would
[37:05] have not seen Star Wars or don't care about Star Wars.
[37:08] We don't want to alienate them. Although Star Wars is full of
[37:11] aliens, so no. So here's my thing.
[37:14] So I'm going to help you get to the answer even if you have
[37:16] never seen Star Wars. I don't know.
[37:19] Fictional planet is called tattooing.
[37:21] It has got two sons. That means, like you correctly
[37:24] figured out, there is double the amount of evaporation.
[37:29] Now you were misled by thinking it was a well, but it was a dry
[37:32] well. There's no water.
[37:34] So where do people in tattooing get their water from?
[37:39] I'm guessing the deep underground?
[37:41] Nope. So you just told me that it's
[37:43] all evaporated. Right.
[37:44] Then it exists as water vapor then, right?
[37:46] Exactly. So some sort of a condenser or
[37:49] something? Yes, you are in the ballpark.
[37:52] You are right. OK, OK, OK.
[37:54] So what do you think they do? Cool it down.
[37:56] I guess that's that's what I can think of.
[37:58] That's all, That's all. You are right that OK, now I
[38:02] will give you the points because that's the science behind it,
[38:04] OK? The profession is called
[38:05] moisture farmers. Now that you say it, of course.
[38:10] Yes. Moisture farmers, yeah.
[38:11] Yes. So in using condensation,
[38:13] they'll take moisture from the air and turn it into potable
[38:15] water. Uruvu Labs.
[38:17] Did it? Wow.
[38:19] They were watching the movie, they saw the moisture farmers
[38:22] and they realized Bangalore, which has a lack of drinking
[38:25] water, has a quite a humid because it's always raining and
[38:28] it's always chill. So they have developed these
[38:31] huge boxes which you put on top of your terrace and that takes
[38:35] water from the air and then condenses it and makes it to
[38:39] drinking water overlaps in Bangalore.
[38:41] Wow, OK. So technically they are moisture
[38:44] farmers just like in Star Wars. That's actually very cool.
[38:49] I love that because like you said, I think even if you
[38:52] haven't seen Star Wars, you have roughly a sense of what that
[38:55] world is. Yeah, probably seen that image
[38:57] of that. Very cool, Very cool.
[38:59] Two Suns. Oh by the way, 2 Suns in the
[39:01] sunset. I have to bring it back.
[39:03] One of my favorite Pink Floyd songs.
[39:05] OK. Doc is the music fan.
[39:08] Oh yeah. Doc is the music fan, yeah.
[39:10] Now I'm guessing he's going to listen to this episode once you
[39:14] edited it, right? He will.
[39:16] He will, yeah. So you're going to ask him this
[39:18] question? OK, There are only two songs in
[39:22] the entire catalog of Pink Floyd which have a particular fact
[39:25] attached to them. One is $0.02 in The Sunset from
[39:28] their last ever album The Final Cut, and the other is Mother
[39:33] from the Wall. OK.
[39:35] You just after this recording column and you want to say, hey,
[39:38] I had this recording with Bertie, it was OK, fine, we can
[39:42] do something about it. They did.
[39:45] That's exactly what I'm going to say, yeah.
[39:47] But here is a question for you. He asked me to ask you what
[39:51] interesting fact connects only these two hyper exhaustive list
[39:54] of the mother, the song from the Wall and two Suns and sunsets
[39:58] from the final cut. You know what, I'm going to
[40:01] leave this in the episode, and once Doc comes back, he has to
[40:04] answer this. I'm not going to let you answer
[40:07] the question on this episode right now.
[40:09] Excellent, I will send you the answer separately.
[40:11] Perfect. This is a random audience
[40:12] question meta question for the quiz master inside the.
[40:16] For the quiz master, who's going to be an audience just for this
[40:19] episode, and when he comes back in an episode or two, he's going
[40:22] to have to answer this question. Special question for him.
[40:25] Excellent. OK, so just for our sake, can
[40:28] you repeat that question? So there are two songs Mother
[40:31] from the world. Mother do you think Dilra the
[40:33] Bombs, Great song and Two Suns in the Sunset from the final
[40:37] cut. OK, beautiful.
[40:38] David Dilma Sola in that these are the only two songs Hyper
[40:43] Exhausted which have a very specific thing connecting them
[40:46] in the entire Pink Floyd catalog.
[40:48] Alright, so Vineet, I hope you have heard this question
[40:52] whenever this is being aired. And dear listeners, if you know
[40:55] the answer, please don't send it to Vineet because he will have
[40:59] to answer this next time we Vineet and add back to recording
[41:02] an episode. Perfect.
[41:03] I love this one. OK, but I will come back to our
[41:07] question and you know what? I'm going to use Pink Floyd as
[41:10] my segue. So Pink Floyd, this is not going
[41:13] to be a Pink Floyd question. I'm really sorry to break your
[41:15] heart. But just a segue.
[41:17] Using it as a very weak segue and that is something British.
[41:23] No, that's a good segue, yeah. No.
[41:25] Good. It's a little bit of an alphabet
[41:27] soup. Or let's just say there are two
[41:29] things that you have to identify.
[41:30] X&Y. Alright, OK, X is a character in
[41:34] British literature, a very famous character in British
[41:37] literature that first appeared in 1958.
[41:40] OK. The physical representation of X
[41:45] was created in 1972, so the character was in literary form
[41:52] before that, and then the physical version of it, the
[41:56] tangible version that you can hold in your hands, was created
[41:59] in 1972. This was created by a small
[42:03] family business run by Shirley and Eddie.
[42:06] Oh, I know this. Ah.
[42:10] OK, random segue. I know this because I'm a Top
[42:12] Gear fan. Oh, there you go.
[42:15] There you go. That was going to be my why
[42:17] Shirley and Eddie made this as a prototype, as a present for the
[42:23] children, Joanna and Y So tell me what X&Y are.
[42:30] Yeah. OK, sorry, I got very excited
[42:32] because. No, no, no.
[42:34] That was very, very well cracked very quickly.
[42:36] So give me the answer. OK, so I love Top Gear, one of
[42:41] the greatest modern shows of all time.
[42:43] Honestly, right now I'm not even missing beneath.
[42:45] It's just like he's here right now.
[42:49] Now, The thing is, my partner hates Top Gear.
[42:52] OK? She thinks it's a waste of time,
[42:53] just three idiots going around do this and breaking beautiful
[42:57] cars and all that kind of stuff. But she is a huge fan of
[43:02] Paddington. She's read all the books, she's
[43:05] got everything. She's seen the movies.
[43:07] Huge fan. In that particular universe.
[43:11] The only intersection for both of us is Jeremy Clarkson,
[43:16] because Jeremy Clarkson is from Top Gear and so Joanna's sister
[43:21] and his mom and dad were responsible for the very first
[43:26] merchandising of Paddington Bear.
[43:28] Correct, right? Yes.
[43:29] And the sales of Paddington is what led to his education.
[43:33] They could finance his education, which actually led to
[43:35] who he is right now. So Paddington Bear and Jeremy
[43:38] Clarkson. Very cool, very very well
[43:40] cracked. I love when real life just
[43:42] intersects with. Trivia.
[43:45] I know. In this particular case, yeah.
[43:47] Yes, but you're right. So Michael Bond is the author
[43:51] who created Paddington Bear. He named it after the Paddington
[43:54] station near which he lived at one point.
[43:57] And he just had the idea of because he saw a stuffed toy
[44:01] outside the Paddington station one day and he thought that he
[44:05] wanted to write about this. By the way, he has written this
[44:08] almost as an allegory for the Jewish refugee children from
[44:11] Europe arriving in Britain. Absolutely.
[44:14] Yes, absolutely. Which makes it even more
[44:15] heartwarming somehow. Which isn't really nice.
[44:17] Yeah. It is it is a wonderful take on
[44:20] the refugee status and the new movies also do a great job.
[44:23] And introducing Hugh Grant as a villain.
[44:26] It's just beautiful. And I I Paddington was just
[44:30] great. You're right again, not related
[44:33] to the trivia directly, but it is just such a nice thing.
[44:36] Bond, the author has said once that quote, they all had a label
[44:41] around their neck with their name and address on and a little
[44:44] case or package containing all their treasured possessions.
[44:47] So Paddington in a sense was a refugee.
[44:49] And I do think there's no sadder sight than refugees.
[44:52] So this was his way of trying to bring some little joy, make it a
[44:56] little bit more relatable, make people more accepting of
[44:59] refugees joining their community.
[45:01] And Paddington Bear is very much the physical manifestation of
[45:03] that. And talk more physical
[45:05] manifestations. Just rounding up the question.
[45:07] Shirley and Eddie Clarkson ran company called Gabriel Designs,
[45:12] and in 1972 they designed the first Paddington Bear
[45:16] merchandise, the first tough toy.
[45:18] Michael Bond had awarded the Clarksons the licensing of the
[45:21] toy rights throughout the world to the Clarksons.
[45:23] And you're right. That's how in a way, Jeremy
[45:26] Clarkson's education was funded thanks to Paddington Bear.
[45:30] Nice. Very well done.
[45:33] OK, I'm going to let you have the last question.
[45:36] Go for it. I got the perfect segue for you.
[45:40] So we talked about, you said British and you said Paddington.
[45:43] That's literature. You mentioned Michael Bond, so
[45:46] direct, no change in segue. We are sticking to not one, not
[45:51] 2, not 3, but multiple great British literary figures, OK.
[45:58] OK. This is not part of the
[45:59] question, but just to get you excited, OK, I'm going to name a
[46:03] person. You have to give me that
[46:05] literary creation. OK.
[46:08] No points. We'll just go for it.
[46:10] First one author Conan Doyle. Alright, Sherlock Holmes.
[46:14] Well done, PG Woodhouse. The The Butler.
[46:20] Jeeves and Wooster. Jeeves.
[46:21] Jeeves, I kept thinking. Butler.
[46:22] Yeah, Jeeves. A A Milne.
[46:25] Yeah, Winnie the Pooh. Well done Jerome K Jerome.
[46:29] Lots of great books he's. Written, but I science fiction,
[46:33] right? No.
[46:34] Three men in a boat and all that kind of stuff.
[46:36] Oh, sorry, sorry. Yes, Three men in a boat.
[46:38] Yeah. OK.
[46:38] Well, Alfred Lottinson's son is a bit of a thing.
[46:43] OK. But anyway, we'll go with that.
[46:45] We have EW Horning OK, who wrote the AJ Raffles series.
[46:49] OK. Which is a British series, then
[46:51] Andrew Lang's fairy books, which is why Henry Justice Ford, AW
[46:55] Mason, who wrote the Four Feathers, who's responsible for
[46:58] Agatha Christie's work? EV Lucas, brilliant poet Bernard
[47:03] Patridge, who gave us some of the great British novels or
[47:10] whatever, and the most important part, and you can name this
[47:15] guy's creation JM Barrie Barrie. JM Barrie is, I've asked this
[47:22] question, Peter Pan. Correct.
[47:23] Exactly. Yeah.
[47:25] Now, do you have any disagreement about this pantheon
[47:28] of writers? They're all great.
[47:30] They're all great. Yes.
[47:31] Yeah. OK.
[47:32] They all got together in real life and formed A-Team called
[47:39] Allah Akh Berries. OK play on the word Allahu Akbar
[47:44] which means God help us. So this was God help.
[47:48] The Berries team is what they translated as Allahu Akbaris.
[47:54] When not writing some of the greatest works known to mankind,
[47:59] all of them decided to do something else.
[48:01] OK. Only Tennyson knew how to do
[48:04] this properly. OK.
[48:07] Everybody else was shit so, so bad.
[48:12] I mean, they're horrendously bad.
[48:14] And they only did it a couple of times by themselves.
[48:18] Then they said, you know what, we need to make this official,
[48:21] Call somebody else. And a group of girls from
[48:25] America came and whacked them. OK.
[48:28] It was so bad that barrios love, you know what?
[48:34] Only thing we do is write a book about it.
[48:36] OK. And he wrote a book about it
[48:39] called Allahu Akbaris and Whatever.
[48:41] OK, OK. And the greatest person to have
[48:44] ever done that activity wrote the foreword for the book and
[48:49] talked about how bad it was. Now you have to tell me two
[48:53] things. What was the thing that they
[48:55] were all doing? And who was the guy who wrote
[48:56] the foreword to the book by JM Barry, Alfred Lawtennison, Son
[49:02] Emil, Arthur Conan Doyle, All of these people together.
[49:06] OK, at this point, again, I don't know why today is the
[49:09] spirit of Vineet has occupied you because Vinit has asked me
[49:12] this question. Oh, Vinit has asked me a
[49:14] question on a previous episode and there he asked me the name
[49:16] of the team. Because I love puns and I love a
[49:19] good punny name. Oh, nice, nice, nice.
[49:21] So Allah Akbariz and it was a cricket team, if I'm not wrong,
[49:24] that they were part of. Absolutely right.
[49:26] They are the worst cricket team and.
[49:28] I don't know this part about the book and the foreword.
[49:31] That part I don't think he mentioned.
[49:32] So yes. So that's why I wanted to hear
[49:35] the full question. So at that time, the greatest
[49:37] person ever. It is poetic justice who wrote
[49:41] the forward to a book about the world's most disastrous cricket
[49:44] match where they lost 2 nurses and didn't lose like, you know,
[49:48] just by they lost me like a huge margin.
[49:51] They were just so bad. OK, again, I'm not sure the
[49:55] timeline, if it matches or if they were contemporaries, but
[49:59] the greatest batsman, the greatest cricketer of that
[50:02] generation, the only person I can think of is Don Bradman.
[50:05] And take points it is. Don Bradman wrote the foreword.
[50:11] Oh, that's insane. Yeah.
[50:16] I love this. I just actually love this.
[50:18] There's some amazing stories. OK, apparently Corn and Oil was
[50:21] already a first class cricketer. She was the only one who used to
[50:24] run. OK, Jay, Mary used to take a run
[50:27] and say I'm tired and go and have tea and upper.
[50:34] The aim was a little stout. So he used to be on the side of
[50:37] the field. And if a ball comes within, like
[50:39] just after 5 feet, he'll be like, no, no, it's too far, I'm
[50:42] not going for it. By the time he walked and got
[50:45] the ball, they would have run four runs.
[50:48] And who was the opposite team? It was a team of nurses.
[50:51] These girls were absolutely with these guys.
[50:53] Asses. Yeah.
[50:56] Wow, OK, they they should have stuck to their words I guess.
[51:01] Absolutely. I love how this expanded upon a
[51:03] question that we have asked previously.
[51:05] Very nice. I love Berries with the foreword
[51:08] by Don Batman of all people. Wow.
[51:10] Yeah, I think we got a good segue throughout.
[51:13] I'm really happy. You continue to be the king of
[51:16] segues. You have clearly, clearly aced
[51:19] that part of the Are you quizzing me?
[51:21] Which is all I am concerned about.
[51:23] That's what matters. Real listeners know that the
[51:26] trivia is a side gig. We live for the segues.
[51:31] OK, perfect. And I think on that note, we
[51:33] come to the end of the episode. But before we wrap up, as usual,
[51:37] I have the audience question. Oh, yes, which famous band?
[51:41] Which famous American band gets its name after the astrological
[51:46] sign of the founder? And the sign was Sagittarius and
[51:51] certain qualities attached to Sagittarius.
[51:53] Interesting. OK, Sagittarius is the the
[51:57] Archer with the horse, right? Sagittarius is the center.
[52:00] The center. Horse with no name would be
[52:04] American, but that's not the name.
[52:05] The name was Song, part of the band.
[52:06] OK, I give me one more clue and I'll see if we can figure it
[52:09] out. So it doesn't have so much to do
[52:12] with the Centaur. It is another set of qualities,
[52:17] I'll say, that are attached to astrological signs in general.
[52:20] OK, I'm not aware of these qualities.
[52:21] You can tell me the quality, then I'll see if we can figure
[52:23] it. Out actually, if I tell you the
[52:25] quality, you'll get it directly. But when you talk to people who
[52:28] are really into Zodiac signs, they'll be like, oh, you know,
[52:31] I'm a Virgo, which is a this thing, but I'm a Sagittarius,
[52:35] which is a this quality or I'm a Cancer, which is a this quality.
[52:39] And hence my personality is so and so.
[52:41] So do you know what qualities do astrological science Zodiac sign
[52:45] enthusiasts talk about very often?
[52:47] And they talk about their respective astrological science.
[52:50] I am lost. I am more into astronomy than
[52:53] astrology. If you give me a clue, I can
[52:58] probably guess. It OK because.
[53:00] I know my American bands. Before they took on this name,
[53:04] this person was a drummer and he was a former member.
[53:09] Before he was part of this band, he was a member of another group
[53:13] of musicians. OK.
[53:15] The three friends, these three friends, they got a recording
[53:18] contract with Capitol Records. They called themselves the Salty
[53:22] Peppers. Ah, OK.
[53:25] And then eventually the new band formed when the drama session
[53:29] drummer decided to whatever, start his own thing.
[53:32] OK, now I have a couple of ideas.
[53:34] I'm just thinking, you salty Peppers, you said right I got.
[53:39] I just realized the name of the band because it fits in with the
[53:43] concept. It's earth, Wind and Fire.
[53:45] Earth, Wind and Fire is the right answer.
[53:48] So that will be Morris White and Philip Bailey.
[53:51] Very well done. Maurice White is the former
[53:53] session drummer for a former member of the Ramsay Lewis Trio.
[53:58] And there then at some point the friends got a recording contract
[54:02] and they call themselves the Salty Peppers.
[54:04] Eventually, when Morris White started his own band, his
[54:07] astrological science Sagittarius Primary Elemental Quality of
[54:10] Fire and Seasonal Quality of Earth and Air, which is where
[54:15] the band gets its name, Earth, Wind and Fire.
[54:19] Great funk band. What a band.
[54:22] This should be a question in September.
[54:25] Yes, it should. So that was my audience question
[54:28] for today. And Bertie, as per usual,
[54:32] phenomenal performance. You thank you.
[54:34] This is way more than an average number of questions that I
[54:37] asked. So I had to dig up more
[54:39] questions halfway through because I'm like Bertie is
[54:42] answering each question way too quickly.
[54:44] I'm not even getting to my forget about the hints.
[54:47] I'm not even getting to the end of my question.
[54:50] And randomly putting in another question in the middle.
[54:53] For bug segue into another question, I love that.
[54:58] OK, so that brings us to the end of the podcast 1.
[55:00] Second one second one second one second one, second one second.
[55:03] This is an audio podcast but I just saw your background.
[55:06] Is that a picture of an alpaca behind you?
[55:10] It is an alpaca, yes. OK, here is my audience question
[55:13] for you from this. OK.
[55:15] Those who haven't seen the video, I don't think you'll ever
[55:17] do that, is our picture of a very cute alpaca behind Hadi, or
[55:21] Adiya as we now know him. Here's a random question for
[55:25] you. What is the scientific term when
[55:27] alpaca gives birth? Term used by researchers and fun
[55:31] guys when alpaca gives birth. Very interesting.
[55:35] It's fun. It's a fun term.
[55:37] You know what? So this can be a second audience
[55:39] question and we will give the answer at the actual end of this
[55:42] episode. Perfect.
[55:43] Before we get to it, pop culture recommendation, Bertie, anything
[55:46] you've watched, anything you've seen, heard, attended that you
[55:50] loved recently? I don't know if you guys have
[55:52] talked about sinners. We have, we have raved about
[55:55] sinners, but you know what your recommendation counts as well.
[55:58] So, Sinners, is your recommendation.
[56:00] Well, here's the thing. I don't know when this episode
[56:03] will go out but on August OK, this is going to be a
[56:06] recommendation as well as an invite to an event.
[56:10] So a couple of friends and I, we saw Sinners and we were blown
[56:13] away by the history and ethno music, Rafi and obviously the
[56:16] music of it. So on August 11th, which is a
[56:19] Saturday in Bangalore at Underlying Centre, we are
[56:24] having, for lack of a better word, experience night called
[56:31] Unfiltered. So this is by Original Dog and
[56:34] what happens is we are going to have an evening of the Blues.
[56:38] But here's the thing. So it's going to be in three
[56:41] acts. The first act is going to be me
[56:43] going to do some random facts and quizzes and all that kind of
[56:47] stuff. The second act is going to be by
[56:49] Kavya Murthy, who's an editor and a brilliant Blues aficionado
[56:53] who's going to talk about the ethnomusigraphy, the history,
[56:58] about slavery and the the very interesting things that led to
[57:02] what the Blues is. It's going to be a audio visual
[57:06] presentation and she's going to make us all cry, which is going
[57:08] to be followed by this Blues artist who's nobody has heard
[57:13] of, who I have discovered, who plays like he's being possessed
[57:17] by Robert Johnson. Wow, OK.
[57:20] OK. And not only is he going to
[57:22] play, he's going to play and this is just going to be him and
[57:26] this viewed guitar, which just looks like it's a broken toy.
[57:29] And he's not only going to play music, he's going to break down
[57:32] the different types of Blues styles.
[57:33] What is the Delta Blues? What's the Mississippi Blues?
[57:35] What is the, you know, different style?
[57:37] He's going to play them, going to sing them and talk about what
[57:40] they are. So it's going to be a night of
[57:41] Blues at the Underline Center in Bangalore on August 11th.
[57:44] Wow, OK you know what, that sounds so amazing.
[57:47] I'm half tempted to fly down to Bangalore for this.
[57:50] In case I'm not able to make it, please, please come to Bombay
[57:53] with this as well because I can guarantee you there's an
[57:55] audience for it over here. I know, I know.
[57:57] We will. We will tour this, yes.
[58:00] You should. That's amazing.
[58:02] Wow. OK.
[58:02] This is based on Sinners which have been my recommendation for
[58:04] a movie, but I will also tell you something else which if you
[58:08] like, if you watch Sinners you liked it and is also part of my
[58:12] playlist and is also going to play a huge role at the session
[58:18] is the album play by Moby. Oh, Moby the recording artist,
[58:22] of course. Yes, so that's going to be my
[58:24] recommendation. Go listen to Play the album by
[58:27] Moby. You must have definitely heard
[58:29] it in some soundtrack, The Beach, Leonard DiCaprio, some
[58:32] nonsense. OK, now that you've seen Sinners
[58:34] and now that you know about the Blues, go and do it.
[58:37] And if you're a quizzer, just go Google Alan Lomax Lomax and then
[58:43] enjoy Moby. So that that's my
[58:44] recommendation. I love it.
[58:46] There's homework for all us trivia nerds as well.
[58:49] Perfect. All right, Amazing sinners.
[58:51] We have recommended the past, so here's a triple recommendation.
[58:54] Both Vineet and I loved it, and now Bertie has added to it as
[58:57] well. I am going to recommend
[58:59] something which maybe not a lot of people have watched.
[59:02] It is the series called Into the Night and this is, I believe, on
[59:06] Netflix. It is a binge worthy series in
[59:09] the sense that don't go in expecting something that is
[59:12] going to blow your mind away. Vineet accused me last time of
[59:15] being very highbrow, so I'm going very basic now.
[59:19] The end of the night is a fun concept.
[59:21] It's a bunch of people literally trying to escape Sunrise, so
[59:25] they're flying away from Sunrise continuously.
[59:28] Is it like vampires? No, no, there is some something
[59:32] that is happening, some global thing that is happening and
[59:35] these people know that they have to try to escape sunlight at all
[59:39] costs, so they kept to keep flying towards the West.
[59:42] Oh, I like it. Yeah, it's a very simple
[59:44] concept, and what's super fun is that there is a problem, and in
[59:48] this whole course of the season that they're trying to escape,
[59:51] some problem arises at the beginning of each episode.
[59:53] By the end of the episode, it's solved.
[59:54] I love it. It's more straightforward.
[59:58] You watch it, you have a great end to it, little bit of a
[1:00:01] cliffhanger, and then you watch the next episode.
[1:00:04] Perfect for like a day where you don't want to watch something
[1:00:06] too intense, too highbrow. Into the night is my
[1:00:09] recommendation. The other recommendation?
[1:00:11] I'll go slightly highbrow again. I've recommended Celine's songs
[1:00:14] or movie Past Lives in the past. I'm going to recommend
[1:00:17] Materialists because I just got it recently.
[1:00:20] Materialists is a second film by the same director.
[1:00:24] A lovely film I believe. Not as good as Past Lives.
[1:00:27] I really love Past Lives, but Materialists is also not a bad
[1:00:29] film and some very attractive leads.
[1:00:32] It has three very attractive people in its lead.
[1:00:34] So watch it if nothing else for the eye candy.
[1:00:37] And that's the pop culture recommendation.
[1:00:39] The spiel that Vineet usually doesn't today falls to me.
[1:00:43] Go ahead, like subscribe. But more than anything else,
[1:00:46] please recommend it to people who you think like trivia, love
[1:00:49] trivia, because that's the best way for us to grow.
[1:00:51] And if you like to be part of this, you can always join the
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[1:00:57] I go and post once in a while, so come talk to us over there.
[1:01:02] Somebody recently asked me to recount how this podcast
[1:01:05] started. So once we need this back, I'm
[1:01:07] going to dedicate a few minutes of the podcast to that in the
[1:01:10] future episode. Wait for that.
[1:01:12] OK. You can send us questions as
[1:01:14] well on our e-mail, whichisareyouquizzingme@gmail.com.
[1:01:17] You can tag the quiz master who you want to be asking the
[1:01:20] question and send it to us. And as Bertie's already
[1:01:24] mentioned, he is somebody who's doing a lot of things all over
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[1:01:31] We will tag him obviously on our Instagram as well, which is, are
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[1:01:37] him, see what else he's up to apart from this one frankly
[1:01:41] amazing sounding event that is coming up in the near future.
[1:01:45] And that is the spiel. So yeah, do the needful give us
[1:01:51] a rating, like subscribe? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:01:54] You know it. And before we wrap up, Bertie,
[1:01:57] what was the answer to that question?
[1:01:59] When an alpaca is giving birth, it's called unpacking.
[1:02:09] Oh, oh, this is beauty. This, this makes me so happy.
[1:02:13] You have no idea. OK, thanks guys for having me.
[1:02:17] I'm so happy to have had you. Have a lovely evening.
[1:02:20] Thanks all. And yeah, keep quizzing.
[1:02:22] Take care. See you guys next week.
[1:02:37] All right, perfect. I think that is the.

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